WASHINGTON, May 28 — A group of 23 US states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a Trump administration decision to weaken Obama-era fuel efficiency standards. In March, the administration issued final rules requiring 1.5 per cent annual increases in vehicle fuel...
Customers line up with their cars at a Costco gasoline station in Austin, Texas December 14, 2016. — Reuters pic
California Air Resources Board chair Mary Nichols said the administration “used questionable science, faulty logic and ludicrous assumptions to justify what they wanted from the start: To gut and rewrite the single most important air regulation of the past decade.” New York City, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles are joining the challenge by California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada and 17 other states.
The new rules require the US vehicle fleet to average 40.4 miles per gallon rather than 46.7 under the Obama rules finalised in 2012.
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